Nine Lives

[Gildarts]

There were less than five people left for the final round. Gildarts didn’t include himself and soon realized that he would have to face both of his companions from their gladiator adventures earlier. Gildarts had finally been matched with Cal.

“Don’t think I’m going to go easy on you,” He warned Cal.

“If you did, I’d be disappointed.” The assassin spoke back, and both readied their hands. Gildarts let his turn to fists, while Cal’s shook with vast amounts of crackling electricity. Both fixed their gaze on one another as the battle bell sounded around them.

A whip of lightning extended from Cal’s index and middle finger. It followed the direction that he pointed, and landed square on Gildarts’ chest. Electricity ignited and began to sear against his boiling flesh. Gaping wounds bubbled on contact with the unfathomable heat of it all.

Gildarts grated his teeth as he evaded the next whip. He wasn’t immediately electrocuted, like he would have expected, however the molten energy had burnt at his skin. He sucked in a breath and his eyes smoldered with a growing determination.

Another whip lashed out at him, another dodge was initiated by Gildarts’ feet. His stance dipped inward as he lurched toward Cal, who prepared himself by releasing the whip and readying whatever else Cal had in store.

Gildarts was a veteran fighter, he wasn’t the type to just sit around and take whatever Cal was ready to dish out. Slowly, he worked to make his move, and itched closer before he deployed a slice in the air “crash!” which caused a bolt of energy to slice into Cal. The diameter grew a bit before the assassin had to flick off some of the gooey blood that started to pool around his wound. Cal distastefully looked at the net-like pattern imprinted on his own skin.

“You’re going to pay.” They hadn’t even begun.



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Crash! (Requires Ranged Prof, Area Attack Prof) 600 OM (chargeable feature is extra) (I may upgrade this to a super move later on)

With this move Gildarts sends a strong wave of slicing energy at his opponent. It grows wider in ratio to the distance it travels in the air and frequently scrapes up the ground in its wake as it travels toward the opponent.

With cubes of earth splattering through the air, the move grows in size and finally connects with its target straight on. The target receives shallow lacerations in the pattern of a net.

Drawbacks: Charge up time is about five seconds and the move continues to grow even when it is released from his body. With this said Gildarts cannot stop it in the air and it must land on its final course. It is somewhat difficult to aim if the opponent is further away. While it is in the air Gildarts must keep his focus on it but can still dodge an oncoming attack.

Enemies with high defense will be less susceptible to this move and can resist the impact.

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